Sarah Kate Ellis took over America’s most respected gay group and turned it into a pro-trans money making machine. Her hubris led her to attack the New York Times and now her reputation is in tatters.
The recent New York Times exposé of the CEO of GLAAD, the vast ex-gay organisation that surrendered to the trans agenda a decade ago, is a moral tale for our time. It’s a story that mixes hubris, revenge, sabotage and treachery. Oh and money. Lots of it.
On August 1st the Old Grey Lady (so called because of the paper’s reputation for being a stickler for factual accuracy) published the results of a major investigation that alleged mis-spending tantamount to fraud by GLAAD’s CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.
The paper claimed Ellis combined lobbying at the likes of Davos (where else?) with personal pleasure including the odd ski trip and dwelt in exquisite detail on one top dollar trip to Zurich where a chauffeur drove her to a seven bedroom chalet that cost half a million dollars a week to rent.
The Hollywood Reporter focused its attention on the suggestion Ellis receives a basic salary of $441,000 with automatic 5 percent increases every year. They speculated bonuses mean she could receive from $700,000 to $1.3 million a year. GLAAD disputes the figures.
So what makes this story more than just another case of alleged inappropriate behaviour at yet another charity?
What the New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter do not explain is that GLAAD had a special place in the affections of American lesbians and gays. Like Stonewall here in the UK, GLAAD was set up as a response to a crisis and quickly became one of the most effective and respected gay organisations in history. Until that is Ellis took it over in 2014.
Ironically, she was appointed as head, the same year as Ruth Hunt (now a Baroness) was at Stonewall and used almost identical tactics to force through the shift to the trans agenda. Like Hunt, Ellis would ruthlessly weaponise her organisations’s status and influence to try to silence anyone who disagreed with that agenda; especially women.